Russia confirms the attack on kyiv and criticizes the expropriation of assets by the US

Russia confirms the attack on kyiv and criticizes the expropriation of assets by the US

The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, reported on his Telegram account the death of at least one person, found dead in the rubble of a residential building. In addition, several other people were injured by this attack, which occurred in the neighborhood of Shevchenko.

Klitschko’s version therefore differs from that offered by the Russian authorities, since it would show that not only military targets were attacked, but also civilians.

Russia reacted this Friday to the proposal of the president of the United States, Joe Bidenabout the use of assets seized from Russian authorities and oligarchs to help Ukraine.

In the opinion of the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dimitri Peskov, the project, which has to be approved by the US Congress, sets “a very dangerous precedent” and constitutes “a flagrant distortion of any legal norm”. “A violation of all legal concepts”has insisted.

“It is nothing more than the expropriation of private property and an attempt to pseudo-legitimize this expropriation,” he said.

Biden’s proposal proposes that the State, Justice and Treasury departments collaborate to give a new use to the funds seized for reasons of corruption or sanctions, in a new gesture of support for Ukraine in the face of “the war of (Vladimir)Putin”.

The US Treasury estimates the assets seized in bank accounts from Russian oligarchs at hundreds of millions of dollars, to which would be added more than 1,000 million dollars in ships and planes.

Meanwhile, Russia has reportedly captured two British volunteers in Ukraine, a nonprofit organization and the family of one of the imprisoned aid workers reported Friday.

Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were “captured” by Russian soldiers on Monday at a checkpoint south of the city of Zaporizhia in southwestern Ukraine, said the NGO Presidium Network.

The volunteers were operating independently to try to help Ukrainians flee and were arrested while helping a woman and her two children in Zaporizhia.

Urey, born in 1977, has type 1 diabetes and needs to take insulin on a regular basis, said his mother Linda Urey, who said his family is “extremely worried”.

The NGO confirmed that it is working with the British Foreign Office.

Source: Ambito

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